News and Announcements

Mendenhall Postdoctoral Fellowship opportunities

There are several opporunities available that are likely to be of interest to the alumni of our program. Please find four of these highlighted below. The first three are based in Golden, the fourth is based in Menolo Park, and the fifth is based at the Seattle field office.

2014 Intern Presentations at AGU

In case you missed seeing our interns at AGU, you can still checkout their abstracts as well as some of their posters (if they have been uploaded). For your convenience, we have provided listing of the 2014 Intern AGU papers here. Then you can search for their session in the AGU 2014 Fall Meeting...

2015 MATE/UNOLS Six-Month Internship Opporunity

The MATE Center and the University National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS) are pleased to announce that we are accepting applications for the 2015 MATE/UNOLS Six-Month Internship through January 5, 2015.

Will you be with us? Apply NOW for Summer 2015

The IRIS Undergraudate Internship Program is pleased to announce the opening of their online application system for the summer of 2015. We anticipate offering at least 12 opportunities for students conduct exciting research with state of the art geophysical data and leading researchers at IRIS...

Howard University - Another new recruiting venue

As part of the IRIS Undergraduate Internship Program's committment to increasing diversity within the seismological community, the program will be recruiting at Howard University's Physics Department on November 19, 2014. We are excited about this opportunity as it will be our first, of hopefully...

Recruiting in the Land of Enchantment

The Physics Department at the University of New Mexico is a new venue for our efforts to recruit minority students (as well as all students generally) into our internship program. If you are in the area, please plan to join our speaker and learn more about the program!

Recruiting at Fort Valley State University

As part of the IRIS Undergraduate Internship Program's committment to increasing diversity within the seismological community, the program will be recruiting at Fort Valley State University (FVSU) on November 6, 2014. Over the past three years four students from FVSU has been accepted into the...

Program Alumni Receives Pretegious Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering

On October 15, 2014, Ved Lekic (2002 program alumnus) was selected as one of the eighteen 2014 Packard Fellows. The Packard Fellowships are an investment in an elite group of scientists and engineers who have demonstrated vision for the future of their fields and for the betterment of our society,”...

Recruiting at the SACNAS National Conference

Annually, IRIS and UNAVCO sponsor and coordinate the Geoscience Field Trip at the SACNAS National Conference. This year's trip was lead by Sue Hough of the USGS and provided the students with multiple opportunities to explore the San Andreas fault and its various surface expressions (from the...

AGI/Schlumberger Fellowship in Geoscience Communication

The American Geosciences Institute is currently accepting applications for the AGI/Schlumberger Fellowship in Geoscience Communication. The successful candidate will play a leading role in AGI’s Critical Issues program, a new initiative to make relevant geoscience information more accessible to...

IRIS/PASSCAL pre-AGU Workshop geared towards early career and new investigators

The IRIS/PASSCAL Instrument Center would like to invite you to register for our PASSCAL Users Workshop to be held on Sunday December 14th, 2014 (the day before the beginning of the AGU Fall meeting)! This year’s workshop will give an overview of the PASSCAL facility, the services we provide and how...

Application deadline for MSPHDS in GEO REU Extended

The application deadline for the Minorities Striving and Pursuing Higher Degrees of Success in GEO REU (MS PHD’S–GEO REU) Professional Development Program has been extended to September 22, 2014! This exciting new program hosted by the Institute for Broadening Participation (IBP) offers full...

Geophysicist position at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory

The U.S. Geological Survey invites applications for a geophysicist position at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. This is a full-time, permanent position monitoring ground surface deformation on some of Earth’s most active volcanoes. Primary job duties include: - Monitors the operational status of...

Reminder: Graduate Research Fellowship Program Deadline

Attention alumni! Here is a great way to kick start your graduate career. NSF's Graduate Research Fellowship Program is open to graduating seniors, first year graduate students, and second year graduate students in their first semester. The program provides three years of support for graduate study...

Winner of the 4th Annual T-shirt Design Competition

The winner of this year's alumni T-shirt design competition is Aaron Prunty (2013). After participating in the IRIS internship program, Aaron received his B.S. in Geology and Geophysics from Virginia Tech in Fall 2013. Currently, Aaron is employed as a research assistant working in computational...

Webinar Opportunity: Funding your Graduate Education

Interested in graduate school but wondering how to pay for it? Your not alone and the Institute for Broadening Participation has some answers that can help! Join them on Wednesday July 9th at 4 p.m. EST for this FREE webinar "Funding your Graduate Education".

Research position in seismology, University of Alaska Fairbanks

The Geophysical Institute (GI) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks is hiring a new seismology faculty member at the rank of Research Assistant Professor or Research Associate Professor. We seek a scientist interested in building a long-term research program that leverages the extensive...

Announcing the 4th Annual T-shirt Design Competition

Calling alumni of the IRIS Internship Program! Now is your chance to grab fame and fortune by submitting a design idea for the 2014 Internship T-Shirt. Not to mention that this year's internship class is depending on you and your creativity to get the super cool t-shirts this year!

Intern’s passion for seismology began with an IRIS school seismograph

Amanda Livers’ interest in geology and earthquakes began in middle school. When choosing a topic for the science fair Amanda found IRIS’s Seismographs in Schools website and convinced her 8th grade science teacher that they should apply. Their joint application resulted in Sidney Middle School...

Student deadline for summer 2014 approaching

Don't be left out this summer! If you are looking for an amazing opportunity to explore the field of geophysics, there is still time to apply for summer 2014! Act fast as the deadline is rapidly approaching with student applications are due by February 1st and letters of recommendation due by...

Postdoc position at the University of Maryland, College Park

Application deadline 2/28/2014

We invite applicants for a postdoctoral researcher to work on a multidisciplinary project aimed at constraining crustal structure and composition using seismic data. The project entails close collaboration between geochemistry/petrology (Rudnick and McDonough)...

Congratulations to the AGU OSPA winners!

Congratulations to all the outstanding student presentation award winners from the recent 2013 Fall AGU. Notable in the list was the award to Martin Schwed, an alumni of our program from 2010, for his paper in the Near-Surface Geophysics section.

Postdoctoral position in seismology at the University of New Mexico

A postdoctoral position in seismology is available at the University of New Mexico (UNM) in Albuquerque. There are many potential opportunities in studies of lithospheric and deeper mantle structure beneath North America across a wide range of spatial scales. Candidates interested in a mix of...

Seismic Source Facility Short Course @ AGU

The Seismic Source Facility is having a short course to familiarize students and principal investigators with the facility and the safety procedures used. The short course will be Sunday, December 8, 2013, 8:30 am to 4 pm. The location will be Zeum Room, Hotel Palomar, 12 4th St., San Francisco,...

Travel Grants for the 2014 SSA Meeting

The SSA Travel Grant application is open now for the SSA 2014 Annual Meeting, to be held next year in Anchorage, Alaska (30 April – 2 May, 2014). The travel grants available are: Student Travel Grants, the International Travel Grant, and the SSA/ESC Travel Grant.

PhD Student opportunity in geophysics

San Diego State University and University of California San Diego are accepting applications for the Joint Doctoral Program in Geophysics. The SDSU/UCSD Joint Program provides full access to the Geophysics curriculum of UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, with additional specialized...

The GeoPRISMS Program, successor to MARGINS, is offering two $500 prizes for Outstanding Student Presentations on GeoPRISMS- or MARGINS-related science at the AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, December 9-13, 2013. The two prizes, one each for a poster...

Student research opportunity (M.S.) at University of Alabama w/ Antarctic fieldwork

The Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Alabama seeks a motivated student who is interested in pursuing graduate studies in earthquake seismology. Support for one is available starting Fall 2014 through an NSF-funded CAREER grant. Research projects will focus on characterizing...

Earthquake/Tsunami ResearchEarthquake/Tsunami Research Position at the University of Puerto Rico at

The Geology Department of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez is seeking applications for a research faculty position in the Puerto Rico Seismic Network (PRSN), in the fields of seismology and earthquake/tsunami monitoring. The appointment will be as a faculty researcher, with an academic...

The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences seeks to appoint two tenure-track professors in solid Earth geosciences, with an emphasis on the geochemistry and geophysics of the Earth’s crust and interior.

Successful applicants will be expected to establish an innovative and internationally...

IRIS/PASSCAL Instrument Center seeks Staff Scientist/Field Engineer

JOB DUTIES - Primary responsibilities are to support seismic research both in the field and in the lab. Duties include: preparing equipment for shipping; worldwide field support including the Arctic and Antarctic; development of specialized equipment for seismic stations in harsh environments;...

Winner of the 3rd Annual T-shirt Design Competition

The winner of this year's alumni T-shirt design competition was Neesha Schnepf (2011). After participating in the IRIS internship program Neesha received her B.S. in Science of Earth Systems from Cornell University in 2013. Neesha has just started graduate school at the Massachusetts Institute of...

Los Alamos National Lab seeking geophysicist

The Geophysics Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory is looking for a creative, experienced professional scientist to join our interdisciplinary team to take a leadership role in research to detect and characterize clandestine nuclear explosions using multi-phenomenology explosion monitoring...

Two new Assistant Professor positions… (Boise, ID & Munich, Germany)

Assistant Professor in Geophysics - Boise State University

Boise State University, powered by creativity and innovation, stands uniquely positioned in the Northwest as a metropolitan research university of distinction. Interested applicants are encouraged to apply for the position of a tenure...

AGU Seismology Section Seeks Student Representative

The Seismology Section is looking for a new Ph.D. student to serve as a student representative. This position involves being a voice for student interests and concerns within the section, and includes attending a student breakfast and a meeting with the section officers at the AGU Fall Meeting....

Webinar Opportunity: “Funding your Graduate Education”

Do I have to pay to go to graduate school? How does it all work? The Institute for Broadening Participation collaborated with COSEE-OS to host this webinar outlining the process of applying for graduate funding. Liv Detrick and Chris Cash foam the Institute for Broadening Participation (IBP)...

This session, "Communicating Your Summer's Research with a Non-scientist Audience", will be presented on July 15, 2013. The session presented by Linda Cendes, Program Associate in the Public Engagement Office, will focus on how to communicate scientific research to a non-scientific audience....

2011 Alumna’s internship project expands to publication

2011 intern Kimmy McCormack's (left) internship project focused on developing receiver functions for seismic stations along the Ryukyu arc in southeastern Japan. The goal of the project was to attempt to determine whether any serpentinization has occurred in the upper mantle of the subduction...

Announcing the 3rd Annual T-shirt Design Competition

Calling alumni of the IRIS Internship Program! Now is your chance to grab fame and fortune by submitting a design idea for the 2013 Internship T-Shirt. Not to mention that this year's internship class is depending on you and your creativity to get the super cool t-shirts this year!

Upcoming Webinar - Negotiating your Postdoc Position

An experienced panel (both current postdocs and faculty members) will share their perspectives on this topic, followed by a Question & Answer period. Preregistration is requested. Please sign up and pre-share your questions with us at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VG86QR7

Alumna (2007) receives outstanding student paper award from AGU

Stefany Sit was recently recognized for her paper submitted to the 2012 Fall AGU meeting "Six years of tectonic tremor observations prior to the M w 7.4 March 20, 2012 Ometepec earthquake". Stefany's work on tremor began in 2007 when she was an IRIS intern and placed at Miami of Ohio to work...

2012 Internship Class Presents at AGU

We are very proud of our 15 interns who are presenting at the 2012 Fall AGU meeting! We encourage the IRIS community to stop by the interns' posters to meet and talk with them about their work this summer. A complete listing of the IRIS Intern presentations can be downloaded here.

Three PhD Positions in Seismology at RSES, The Australian National University

Three PhD positions in the recently funded projects are available in Seismology and Mathematical Geophysics Group at the Research School of Earth Sciences (RSES), the Australian National University (ANU) starting early 2013. Applications and inquiries are invited from qualified and motivated...

Help Us Celebrate 15 Years of the IRIS Internship Program at AGU!

Initiated in 1998, the IRIS Undergraduate Internship Program has placed 129 students at over 50 IRIS institutions. The vast majority of our alumni have gone on to pursue careers in geophysics or other closely related STEM fields. Help us celebrate this...

Postdoc position at the University of Alaska Fairbanks

The UAF Seismology Lab is home to two dozen faculty, postdocs, staff and students dedicated to advancing observation-driven seismology. Our research targets earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, glaciers and tectonics in Alaska and around the world. We monitor earthquake and volcano activity...

PhD Research Position at the University of Twente, the Netherlands

PhD Research Postion on "Modelling of the African Lithosphere Combining GOCE and Seismology"

This four-year PhD position is offered within the department of Earth Systems Analysis, Faculty ITC at the University of Twente, the Netherlands, in collaboration with Utrecht University, Pennsylvania...

AAAS staff to train IRIS interns on communicating their research to the public

This session, "Communicating Your Summer's Research with a Non-scientist Audience", will be presented on July 6, 2012. The session presented by Tiffany Lohwater (AAAS Public Engagement Manager), will focus on how to communicate scientific research to a non-scientific audience. Concepts will...

Winner of the 2nd Annual Alumni T-shirt Design Competition

The winner of this year's alumni T-shirt design competition was Martin Schwed (2010). After participating in the IRIS internship program Martin received his B.S. in Geoloical Sciences from Trinity University in 2012. Martin will be starting graduate school at Baylor University in the fall, where...

Opportunity at Victoria University of Wellington

PhD students are sought to work on several seismological and geophysical topics within the Institute of Geophysics, School of Geography, Environment, and Earth Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington (VUW).

1. Fault zone structure in the region of the magnitude 7.1 Darfield and the...

Congratulations to Kelsey Brunner (left) and Lindsey Kenyon (right) for their honorable mention in the AGU Seismology Section Outstanding Student Presentation Award program. This is an impressive accomplishment as there were 250 student seismology presentations and the program does not...

Alumni receives SSA’s Student Presentation Award

Annually, the Seismological Society of America (SSA) recognizes excellence in student research with its Student Presentation Award. This year's list of eight recipients includes IRIS Internship alumni Justin Brown (Class of 2004). Justin was recognized for his continued efforts to better...

2011 intern missed AGU but made it to the South Pole (or nearly)

Piage Czoski, an undergraduate at New Mexico Tech (NMT) and 2011 IRIS Intern, is just back from conducting research for her senior thesis in Antarctica. She arrived to Mc Murdo Station in late November and spent much of her time working on Mt. Erebus. Mt. Erebus ( 3,794 m in elevation) is the...

Workshop for advanced graduate students and post-docs - CIDER

Advanced graduate students and post-docs: Come to the CIDER 2012 summer lecture and tutorial program, July 15th- August 10th to improve your understanding of geoscience disciplines other than your specialty and engage in multi-disciplinary research.

We seek a postdoctoral Fellow to study ‘slow’ to ‘fast’ fault slip in Alaska and along the Aleutian arc, which are home to a 2500 km span of subduction zone and one of the world’s most prominent volcanic arcs. These major plate boundaries have hosted episodes of aseismic slip and tremor and an...

Celebrate with us, catch up with friends, and make new connections!

Catch up with the IRIS interns at AGU!

The culmination of each student’s internship experience with IRIS is the opportunity to present the results of their summer research. Most interns and their hosts choose to present at the Fall AGU meeting. This year, 13 of 15 interns will be presenting papers at AGU (the other two are presenting...

The Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Alabama seeks motivated students who are interested in pursuing graduate studies in earthquake seismology. Support for two student research positions (1 MS, 1 PhD) is available starting Fall 2012 through an NSF-funded CAREER grant....

Alumni Opportunity: Don’t Miss the 3rd Annual IRIS Early Career Breakfast at AGU!

Are you an "Early Career" seismologist & interested in IRIS?
IRIS welcomes any post docs to pre-tenure faculty to join us for breakfast to discuss
ways in which IRIS can support you with your research and educational endeavors.

Are you the program’s next Alumni Mentor?

Currently, we are seeking an alumni of the program to serve as the next Alumni Mentor for the program. This alumnus, a student advanced in a PhD program, will provide general support and assist instructionally during the orientation week. Throughout the following summer and fall the Alumni Mentor...

The 2011 Best Blogger Award goes to….

With votes form all of the 2011 interns now cast, the 2011 Best Blogger Award goes to Sara Kowalke! Competition this year was stiff as the runner-up spot was a tie between Ado for her impressive prose and Neesha for her "figure-rich" reflections on detecting tremor. Other notable blogs include...

AAAS Office of Public Programs to deliver webinar to IRIS Interns

This session, presented by Tiffany Lohwater (AAAS Public Engagement Manager), will focus on how to communicate scientific research to a non-scientific audience. Concepts will include: the challenges and...

Winner of the Noble Energy T-shirt design competition

The winner of this year's alumni T-shirt design competition was Cate Fox-Lent (2003). After participating in the IRIS internship program Cate received her B.S. in Geoloical Sciences from Brown University in 2005. Currently, Cate is a high school science teacher in Austin, TX. Congratulations...

2011 internship orientation underway!

This week, May 30 to June 4th, the 2011 class of IRIS interns have gathered in Socorro, NM. This orientation week is designed to help the interns get to know one another and to provide them with an opportunity to learn the basics of seismology and computer programming. The week kicked off with a...

Kluskiewicz (09) awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Daniel Kluskiewicz, a graduate of Penn State University (2010), was recently awarded a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to support his graduate work at the University of Washington. Kluskiewicz participated in the IRIS Internship program during the summer of 2009 where he worked with Shad O'Neel...

Welcome class of 2011

The IRIS undergraduate internship program is pleased to announce the 2011 internship class! Below is a listing of all students accepted into this year's program. Their summer placements have been finalized and the interns are now in the process of finalizing the details of their summer...

Two great fieldcamp opportunities from GSA/Exxon

Program 1. GSA and ExxonMobil are excited to announce the third annual Field Seminar in the Bighorn Basin of north-central Wyoming, which will emphasize multi-disciplinary integrated basin analysis. An all-expenses paid field camp (through an award) in Wyoming from July 31 - Aug. 5, run by the...

Opportunity for program alumni: Dynamics of Mountain Building Summer Workshop

Cooperative Institute for Dynamic Earth Research (CIDER) Workshop: Tutorial and workshop for advanced graduate students and post-docs.
The goal is to familiarize participants with the tools of geochemistry, geodynamics, mineral and rock physics and seismology that are used for understanding...

Don’t be left out!

The IRIS Undergraduate Internship Program is accepting applications for our 2011 internship class. Act now as the February 1 deadline to apply is quickly approaching! We are waiting to fill our fourteen slots with qualified applicants just like you!

2010 Interns Papers at AGU

The presentation of research results at a professional meeting, like AGU, continues to be a corner stone of the IRIS Internship program. Not only does this process provide closure to the reseach phase of the program but it also provides the interns with,

Announcing the 8th Annual IRIS Internship Reception @ AGU!

Now accepting student applications for summer 2011!

Are you an undergraduate physics, math or geoscience major interested in working on a seismological research project this summer? If so, consider applying to the IRIS Summer Undergraduate Internship Program!

Through the program you will spend 8 to 10 weeks working on a seismological research...

2010 - 2011 Minority Recriument Speakers Announced

Each year, the IRIS Undergraduate Internship Program sends almuni of its program to the physics departments of minority serving institutions to promote both the field of seismology as a career option as well as the IRIS Internship program as a path to such a career. We are pleased to announce...

Virtual Poster Competition for Undergraduates

The Journal of Young Investigators, the premier science journal for undergraduates, is hosting a Virtual Poster Session competition. Entries will be accepted until November 19, 2010. Interested students should make a video of themselves discussing a scientific poster and upload their...

Program alumni’s research featured in 2010 T-shirt design

This year's internship T-shirt design features the work of Scott Burdick et al.'s P-wave tomography using data from regional and teleseismic distances. Scott was an IRIS intern in 2005 working with George Zandt at the University of Arizona and is currently a PhD student at Massachusetts Institute...

Funding Opportunity: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

The GRFP provides 3 years of Fellowship support to our nation’s best future scientists and engineers who seek research-based masters or PhD degrees in the science and engineering fields supported by NSF. The award includes a $30,000 per fellowship year stipend to the student, and a $10,500...

Preparing for the 2010 Fall AGU meeting

For many of the interns summer is winding down and they are in their final weeks of their research. As a result, they and their advisors are working with an eye towards the 2010 Fall AGU meeting. This meeting will be held in San Francisco, CA on December 13 to the 17. What this isn't for...

Orientation wraps-up and the research begins

As ususal, the orientation week closed with a bonfire and BBQ in the beautiful San Lorenzo Canyon. Hiking, eating, star gazing and stories of local (and inter-galactic) visitors to the region were pleasant diversions for the interns after intensive days of learning content and skills. The next...

2010 Internship Orientation Underway

This week, May 31 to June 5th, the 2010 class of IRIS interns have gathered in Socorro, NM. This orientation week is designed to help them get to know one another and to provide them with an opportunity to learn the basics of seismology and computer programming. The week kicked off with a...

Alumni work appears in the journal Nature

Not one, but two! Amanda Thomas (2005), a PhD student at UC Berkeley and Danny Brothers (2003), a PhD student at Scripps Institute of Oceanography, have each recently had their work published in nature. Congratulations to both Amanda and Danny!